scholarly journals Developing true community care for the elderly mentally ill

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 460-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. T. Malcolm
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Community Care ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Residential Homes ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Elderly Populations ◽  
Health Districts

This advice to a traveller could be offered to those moving resources from institutional care of the elderly to true care in the home. While present plans concern the destination and mode of travel, less attention is paid to differences in the starting point. Health districts vary greatly in terms of numbers, movements and placements of their elderly populations. Numerical increases or decreases may be caused by migration of elderly people to traditional seaside retirement areas. A further attraction is the availability of nursing and residential homes in these belts. Such homes tend to multiply in a given area and draw in new residents from other districts leading to a disproportionately elderly population.

Institutional Care for the Elderly in the 19th Century: Old People in The Hague and their Institutions

1992 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-212
Author(s):  
Willem Jan Van Der Veen ◽  
Frans Van Poppel
Keyword(s):  
Elderly Population ◽  
Institutional Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Poor Relief ◽  
Female Age ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Homes For The Elderly ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Church

ABSTRACTThis study focuses on the residents of three ecclesiastical homes for the elderly in The Hague in the i9th century. These homes took in poor members of the church who were at least 60 years old. Most of the elderly who resided in these homes had received poor relief before their admission. The main reason for their decision to request admission to a home was that they were no longer able to run a household independently. Most of the residents were well past the age of 60 upon entering the home, women generally being a few years older than men. There were no significant gender differences in duration of residence. The female age at death was a few years higher than for males. The health of the residents appeared to be worse than that of the total elderly population of The Hague, resulting in a higher death rate. In general, residents had independently run a household prior to admission.

scholarly journals Caring for People: a critical review of British Government policy for the community care of the mentally ill

1990 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 641-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Holloway
Keyword(s):  
Government Policy ◽  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Community Care ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Care For The Elderly ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Specific Responsibility ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

The development of ‘community care’ for the elderly, mentally ill, mentally handicapped and physically disabled has been Government policy in Britain since the 1950s. Problems with implementation of this policy led the Audit Commission (1986) to conclude that “the one option that is not tenable is to do nothing about present financial, organisational and staffing arrangements”. Sir Roy Griffiths was commissioned to review “the way funds are used to support community care policy …”. Radical solutions were proposed and subsequently incorporated in the Government White Paper Caring for People (Department of Health, 1989a). However, two very significant measures were not accepted: the ‘ring-fencing’ of community care monies and the creation of a ministerial post within the Department of Health with specific responsibility for community care.

scholarly journals Depression-free life expectancy in elderly populations in Ceará, northeast and Brasil

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ana Glads de Queiroz Rolim ◽  
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Alane Siqueira Rocha ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
National Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
National Health Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Prevalence Of Depression ◽  
Elderly Populations ◽  
The One

This paper investigated depression-free life expectancy in the elderly population of Ceará, the Northeast and Brazil. We used data from the 2019 National Health Survey (PNS) and the projections of the Mortality Tables provided by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2018. Sullivan's method was used to estimate depression-free life expectancy at age 60 years. The results show that, among the elderly in the analyzed regions, women are at a disadvantage in the number of years they will live with depression compared to men. Which suggests that women live longer with depression compared to men. Among the populations analyzed, it was also found that the one in the Northeast showed the smallest difference in the prevalence of depression in the elderly between the sexes, with 11.6% in women and 3.7% in men. In general, the Northeast has the lowest prevalence of depression among the elderly, when compared to the other two regions.

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